Daniel Abraham

"There was a time, Prax knew, that the violence would have bothered him. Not the blood or bodies. He’d spent more than enough time doing dissections and even autonomous-limb vivisection to be able to w…"

"If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too."

"The imperial view, a history professor at the Naval Academy once said, is the long view. Individuals build empires because they want their names to echo through time. They build massive constructs of …"

"Growing older was a falling away of everything that didn’t matter. And a deepening appreciation of all the parts that were important enough to stay."

"Everything was an artifact of its function. That’s what made evolution so gorgeous."

"She felt like her soul was a handful of dice that were still rolling, and what came up would decide the shape that the rest of her life took."

"This was the problem with thousand-year Reichs. They came and they went like fireflies."

"The sad fact of the human species that High Consul Duarte understood so well was that you could never overcome tribalism and jingoism with an argument. Tribalism was an irrational position, and it was…"